When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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.
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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.
The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.