There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.