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

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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.

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

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

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

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.