'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.

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

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.

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.

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