All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.