Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Women of the world crave excitement.