How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.