I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.
Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.