It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.
Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.