Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

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

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

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