I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

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

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.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.