Calamity is the test of integrity.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

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

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.