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.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.