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

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

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.

While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.

No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.