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

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

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

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.