There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

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

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.