Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

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

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

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

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.