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

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislik….

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have..

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action..

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question..

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear..

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds..

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse..

The wisest among us is a fool in some things..

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun..

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..

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications..

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole..

We are all very ready to believe what we like..

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal..

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it..

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors..

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

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor..

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutua….

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity..