Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

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

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.