Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.