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.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Men are less forgiving than women.