It Is Much Easier To Find Fault

We All Know By Theory That There Is No Permanent Happiness In This Life: But The Weight Of The Precept Is Not Felt In The Same Manner As When It Is Confirmed To Us By A Heavy Calamity.

When We Reflect Upon The Cruelties Daily Practised Upon Such Of The Animal Creation As Are Given Us For Food, Or Which We Ensnarefor Our Diversion, We Shall Be Obliged To Own That There Is More Of The Savage In Human Nature Than We Are Aware Of.

But Let Not Those Worthy Young Women, Who May Think Themselves Destined To A Single Life, Repine Over-much At Their Lot; Since, Possibly, If They Have Had No Lovers, Or Having Had One, Two, Or Three, Have Not Found A Husband, They Have Had Rather A Miss Than A Loss, As Men Go.

Reverence To A Woman In Courtship Is Less To Be Dispensed With, As, Generally, There Is But Little Of It Shown Afterwards.

Friendship Is The Perfection Of Love, And Superior To Love; It Is Love Purified, Exalted, Proved By Experience And A Consent Of Minds. Love, Madam, May, And Love Does, Often Stop Short Of Friendship.