He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.