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| A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one. | 1 |
| A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within. | 2 |
| A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one. | 3 |
| A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption. | 4 |
| A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. | 5 |
| An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. | 6 |
| An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind. | 7 |
| An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company. | 8 |
| Beauty is an accidental and transient good. | 9 |
| Calamity is the test of integrity. | 10 |
| Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace. | 11 |
| Everything is pretty that is young. | 12 |
| Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off. | 13 |
| Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health’s sake. | 14 |
| He only who gave life has a power over it. | 15 |
| Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,—all in one. | 16 |
| It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. | 17 |
| Men are less forgiving than women. | 18 |
| Over-niceness may be under-niceness. | 19 |
| People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent. | 20 |
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| Platonic love is platonic nonsense. | 21 |
| Rakes are more suspicious than honest men. | 22 |
| Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. | 23 |
| She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome. | 24 |
| Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. | 25 |
| Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others. | 26 |
| That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity. | 27 |
| The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex. | 28 |
| The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility. | 29 |
| The wisest among us is a fool in some things. | 30 |
| There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations. | 31 |
| What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder? | 32 |
| What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty? | 33 |
| Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating. | 34 |
| Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. | 35 |
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