The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

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.