When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

Life and hope must cease together.

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

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

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.