No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.