It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.