Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.