Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.