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

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

[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.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.