Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.