I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

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.