If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

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?

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

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