There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me