All beginnings are very troublesome things.

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

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

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