The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

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.

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

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.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.