Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.