I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.