The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.
A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.