Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

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.