If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Business first; pleasure afterwards.