Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.

Beware of creating tedium!

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

It's dogged as does it.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.