When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.