Good men must be affectionate men.
What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what’s still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Handsome husbands often make a wife’s heart ache.
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
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.
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.