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

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

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