We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

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

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.