Nature's hasty conscience.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.