Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.