All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.