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.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.