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.

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

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

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