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

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.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

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.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!