Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.