“The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.”

“When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too;In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.”

“Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.”

“Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.”

“I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.”

“He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)”

“Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!How oft would vice and virtue places change!The new world would be nothing to the old,If some Columbus of the moral seasWould show mankind their souls' antipodes.”