 A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. |
| Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. |
| Love is not a volunteer thing. |
| Nothing dries sooner than tears. |
| If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. |
| What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. |
| Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. |
| Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. |
| Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. |
| All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. |
| Those we dislike can do nothing to please us. |
| Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. |
| It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. |
| Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache. |
| 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! |
| A man may keep a woman, but not his estate. |
| Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection. |
| Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. |
| Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. |
| Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. |
