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

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.