We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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

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

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.