What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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.
Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.