Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.