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.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

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