Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

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.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.