Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.