“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

Almost anything is possible with time.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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.