Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

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

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

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

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

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