When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.