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.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.