I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

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

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.