You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.