A Widow's Refusal Of A Lover Is

Things We Wish To Be True Are Apt To Gain Too Ready Credit With Us.

But Let Not Those Worthy Young Women, Who May Think Themselves Destined To A Single Life, Repine Over-much At Their Lot; Since, Possibly, If They Have Had No Lovers, Or Having Had One, Two, Or Three, Have Not Found A Husband, They Have Had Rather A Miss Than A Loss, As Men Go.

If A Woman Knows A Man To Be A Libertine, Yet Will, Without Scruple, Give Him Her Company, He Will Think Half The Ceremony Between Them Is Over; And Will Probably Only Want An Opportunity To Make Her Repent Of Her Confidence In Him.

I Never Knew A Man Who Deserved To Be Thought Well Of For His Morals Who Had A Slight Opinion Of Our Sex In General.

Shame Is A Fitter And Generally A More Effectual Punishment For A Child Than Beating.