The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

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.

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

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.