Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.