A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

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.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

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

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

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.