I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Constant dropping wears away stones

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.