Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

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