The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.