The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on 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.