Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

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

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.