to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

But authors before they write should read.

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.