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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Self-love is a busy prompter.

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.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.