“You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”

Angry people are not always wise.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

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.

The angels decided to shine on me for a little while.

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you.

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

In the land of Gods and Monsters, I was an Angel living in the garden of Evil.

I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit.

I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful. I sin but I’m not the devil. I’m good, but I’m not an angel.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.