Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Books and marriage go ill together.
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.