Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
Habit is second nature.
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.