Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Everything nourishes what is strong already