Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
Women’s eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.
If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.
The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
Every thing is pretty that is young.
Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.
The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man’s purchase.
Virtue only is the true beauty.
We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.