How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.