Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.