The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

With a book he was regardless of time.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.