Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!