At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Frequent the company of your betters.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

The best of women are hypocrites.