Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.