What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh..

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on..

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others..

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years..

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues..

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate..

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions..

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman..

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief..

Success is a fruit of slow growth..

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation..

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation..

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell..

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself..

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived..

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceiv….

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on bo….

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power..

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, ….

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another..