Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.