Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

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

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.