Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

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.

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.