You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

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.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

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.