A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.