Virtue Is Not A Thing You Can

Self-love Is As Protective As The Deity; Disenchantment Is As Perspicacious As A Surgeon; Experience Is As Provident As A Mother. Such Are The Theologic Virtues Of Marriage.

The Majority Of Husbands Remind Me Of An Orangutan Trying To Play The Violin.

Emulation Admires And Strives To Imitate Great Actions; Envy Is Only Moved To Malice.

Virtue Is Not A Thing You Can Have By Halves; It Is Or It Is Not.

The Human Heart May Find Here And There A Resting-place Short Of The Highest Height Of Affection, But We Seldom Stop In The Steep, Downward Slope Of Hatred.