What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.