A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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.

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

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

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.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.