I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.