It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.