Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

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

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.