Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

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

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

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.

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.