There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.