I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.