It has all been most interesting.

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.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Solitude begets whimsies.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.