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.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.