It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
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.
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!