As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.