To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

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.