I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.