people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.