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

The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

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!

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.