Tired of myself longing for what I have not

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.