A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

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