This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.