Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

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.