Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

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

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.