That Dangerous But Too Commonly Received Notion,

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.

Though A Censure Lies Against Those Who Are Poor And Proud, Yet Is Pride Sooner To Be Forgiven In A Poor Person Than In A Rich One; Since In The Latter It Is Insult And Arrogance; In The Former, It May Be A Defense Against Temptations To Dishonesty; And, If Manifested On Proper Occasions, May Indicate A Natural Bravery Of Mind, Which The Frowns Of Fortune Cannot Depress.

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.

Romances In General Are Calculated Rather To Fire The Imagination, Than To Inform The Judgment.

Beauty Is An Accidental And Transient Good.