Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

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.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.