there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.