Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

One man is no more than another if he does no more than another

It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged