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

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.