I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.