A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.