To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

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

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.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.