A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.