But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste fo…

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

There is a persistent myth that a wife has control over her husband's money because she gets to spend it. Actually, she does not have much more financial autho…

Well, the old theory was 'marry a older man because they're more mature'. But the new theory is 'men don't mature - marry a young one'.