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

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

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

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

But authors before they write should read.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.