History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.