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.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.