As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

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.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

It has all been most interesting.