Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

They say women and music should never be dated.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Silence is become his mother tongue.