A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals