For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

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!

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.