There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!

You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.