Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.