The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript