The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

There are some who speak one moment before they think

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.