Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.
You cannot believe everything you hear
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.