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

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

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

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

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.