Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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.