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

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.