Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.