They say women and music should never be dated.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.