Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking