Faults and defects every work of man must have.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.