As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.