Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

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

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

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