Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

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.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?