By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

It requires a long time to know anyone.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.