Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

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

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.

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.