Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

You can never know enough about your characters

Sherry, the civilized drink.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.