There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

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.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

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.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.