The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.