Besides, let me ask, sire, who, except yourself, has ever thought of pitying jealous people?
Are they not a melancholy crew of grumblers always equally unhappy, whether with or without a cause?
You may remove that cause, but you never can remove their sufferings.

It is a disease which lies in the imagination, and, like all imaginary disorders, it is incurable.

By the by, I remember an aphorism upon this subject, of poor Dr.Dawley, a clever and amusing man, who, had it not been for my brother, who could not do without him, I should have with me now.

He used to say, 'Whenever you are likely to suffer from two affections, choose that which will give you the least trouble, and I will allow you to retain it; for it is positive,' he said, 'that that very ailment is of the greatest service to me, in order to enable me to get rid of the other.'" "Well and judiciously remarked, Henrietta," replied the king, smiling.
"Oh! we have some clever people in London, sire." "And those clever people produce adorable pupils.

I will grant this Daley, Darley, Dawley, or whatever you call him, a pension for his aphorism; but I entreat you, Henrietta, to begin by choosing the least of your evils.