A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.