I walk: I prefer walking.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.