A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.