I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.