Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

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

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.