A Man that hath true Wit will have Honour too, not only to adorn, but to support it.
Families.
The building up a Family is a Manufacture very little above the building a House of Cards.
Time and Accidents are sure to furnish a Blast to blow it down.
No House wanteth new Tiling so often as a Family wants Repairing.
The Desire of having Children is as much the Effect of Vanity as of Good-nature.
We think our Children a Part of ourselves, though as they grow up they might very well undeceive us.
Men love their Children, not because they are promising Plants, but because they are theirs.
They cannot discredit the Plant, without disparaging the Soil out of which it came.
Pride in this, as in many other things, is often mistaken for Love.