Good men must be affectionate men.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.