Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.