The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.