It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.