Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

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

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.