Gravity Is The Best Cloak For Sin

For Parents To Restrain The Inclinations Of Their Children In Marriage Is An Usurped Power.

In The Forming Of Female Friendships Beauty Seldom Recommends One Woman To Another.

Wine Is A Turncoat; First A Friend And Then An Enemy.

Want Compassion Is Not To Be Numbered Among The General Faults Of Mankind. The Black Ingredient Which Fouls Our Disposition Is Envy. Hence Our Eyes, It Is To Be Feared, Are Seldom Turned Up To Those Who Are Manifestly Greater, Better, Wiser, Or Happier Than Ourselves, Without Some Degree Of Malignity, We Commonly Look Downward On The Mean And Miserable With Sufficient Benevolence And Pity.

Great Vices Are The Proper Objects Of Our Detestation, Smaller Faults Of Our Pity, But Affectation Appears To Be The Only True Source Of The Ridiculous.