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

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

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.