It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.