"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Habit is second nature.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.