Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

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

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

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.