The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.