Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.