Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.