Tired of myself longing for what I have not

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.

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

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.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.