They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.