“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”

“Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.”

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”

“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”

“I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

“It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.”