One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.