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

"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."

"Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal."

"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 little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."

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

"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

"Love is not a volunteer thing."

"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."

"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."

"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."

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

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."

"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."

"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."

"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."

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

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

"What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear."

"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master."

"A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun."

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