She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.