I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.