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

This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

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

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure