Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured; it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

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