What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.