It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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.

Arguments are too much like disputes.