Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!