Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.