Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.