Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

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.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.