As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.