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.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.