don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.

Tis best to build no castles in the air.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.