Beauties Are Always Curious About Beauties, And

I ... Practiced All The Arts Of Apology, Evasion, And Invisibility, To Which Procrastinators Must Sooner Or Later Be Reduced.

If Young Women Were Not Deceived Into A Belief That Affectation Pleases, They Would Scarcely Trouble Themselves To Practise It So Much.

We Cannot Judge Either Of The Feelings Or Of The Characters Of Men With Perfect Accuracy From Their Actions Or Their Appearance In Public; It Is From Their Careless Conversations, Their Half-finished Sentences, That We May Hope With The Greatest Probability Of Success To Discover Their Real Characters.

It Is Unjust And Absurd Of Those Advancing In Years, To Expect Of The Young That Confidence Should Come All And Only On Their Side: The Human Heart, At Whatever Age, Opens Only To The Heart That Opens In Return.

In Marrying, A Man Does Not, To Be Sure, Marry His Wife's Mother; And Yet A Prudent Man, When He Begins To Think Of The Daughter, Would Look Sharp At The Mother; Ay, And Back To The Grandmother Too, And Along The Whole Female Line Of Ancestry.