The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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.

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 that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

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

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.