Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.