There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.