People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.