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

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.