Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Malice blunts the point of wit.