People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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.
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.