Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position