What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

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.

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

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

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