The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.