General notions are generally wrong.

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

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.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

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.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.