I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.

Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship. The passion should strike root and gather strength before marriage be grafted on it.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a wife.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself-all that runs over will be yours.

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless thy win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the sex as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.