It's all been very interesting.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.