Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

You have delighted us long enough.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!