There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

Blessings on him, who invented sleep.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.