'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

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.

It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

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.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.