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.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

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

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.