Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

These young people are going to change the world.

If people begin to be more grateful, they will see the wonders of life.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights.

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

Dancing came easy to me.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.