Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.