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

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

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

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

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

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