I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.
Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.
... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
I have not laughed since I married.
Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
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.