Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.