The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

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

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.