This long disease, my life.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.