Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.