Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.