I hate the French because they are all slaves, and wear wooden shoes. |
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. |
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine |
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife. |
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. |
I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy. |
I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. |
I'm now no more than a mere lodger in my own house. |
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness. |
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich. |
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales |
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay. |
In all the silent manliness of grief. |
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. |
Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent? |