Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.