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

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.