Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.