Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.