May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.