“O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!”

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

“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.”

“Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.”

“Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.”

“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”

“As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.”

“The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.”

“Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.”

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

“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.”