Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.