“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

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

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

You got to be smart you got to be clever and not get hit and when your able to do this your a fighter.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.

It was fun to be clever.

Some people think that I haven’t got the brains to be that clever.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.