Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.