“When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.”

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

A person can’t help their birth.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Frequent the company of your betters.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.