The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.