To be rude is as good as being clever.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

The stars are so far, far away!