Women’s eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.
If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.
The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
Every thing is pretty that is young.
Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.
The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man’s purchase.
Virtue only is the true beauty.
We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.