There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.