In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.
The thing is to dazzle
Marriage is the tomb of love.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.