People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

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.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

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

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

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.