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

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

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

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

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

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.