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

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.