Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

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

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.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.