to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

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

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.