Know your own happiness.

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.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

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.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.