That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.