Samuel Richardson

"Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating."

"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."

"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."

"Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole."

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

"Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor."