In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

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.

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.