“It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.”

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

An annuity is a very serious business.

Almost anything is possible with time.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.