The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart