Candour’s the cement of friendship. - Thomas Anstey Guthrie

How excellent is the saying of one of old: 'He that adventureth upon matrimony is like unto one who thrusteth his hand into a sack containing many thousands of serpents and one eel. Yet, if Fate so decree, he may draw forth the eel.'

Thou hast heard of her incomparable charms, and verily the ear may love before the eye.
"It may," admitted Horace, "but neither of my ears is the least in love at present."

He was not a strong-minded man; but he had one quality which is almost as valuable a safeguard against temptation as strength of mind—namely, timidity.