People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

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.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

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

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.