If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman.