It is good to have friends at court.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

The vices of some men are magnificent.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.