“There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.”

“Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”

“Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”

“If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument”

“I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

“Honor's thoughtReigns solely in the breast of every man.”

“Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."”

“Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.”

“Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.”

“The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.”