Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.