High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.