Short accounts make long friends.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.