There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.

A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none of us endeavor to be happy, Sir, but merely to be thought so; and for my part, I had rather be in a state of misery, and envied for my supposed happiness, than in a state of happiness, and pitied for my supposed misery.

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

I have not laughed since I married.

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.