English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.