From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

The unhappy never want enemies.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.