That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

The unhappy never want enemies.