I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

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.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.