After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.