Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, m….

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us..

The coyest maids make the fondest wives..

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds..

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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