No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

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.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.