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

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.

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

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

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.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.