To marry a second time represents the triumph of hope over experience.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.