A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.