When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.