People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

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.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.