No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
They say women and music should never be dated.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.