Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

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.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not