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.

The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

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

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

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!