The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

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

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.