Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.