To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.