No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. [Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]