Apologies are seldom of any use.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives