Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

There are amiable vices and obnoxious virtues.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.

FASHION IS GENTILITY RUNNING AWAY FROM VULGARITY, AND AFRAID OF BEING OVERTAKEN BY IT.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

Well, I’ve had a happy life.