Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.