However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?