there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

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

[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

It is freezing fit to split a stone.