The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.