There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.