Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?