There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.