There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
From Samuel Richardson
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
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.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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