Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

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

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.