Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.