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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I'm married to a very generous woman.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.