Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

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

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

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

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.