Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

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.

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

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

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

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.