The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.