The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what’s still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Handsome husbands often make a wife’s heart ache.
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
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.
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
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.
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.