I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?