A vow is a snare for sin

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss

To a poet nothing can be useless

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion

I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so

I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter

Reason and truth will prevail at last