A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

You have delighted us long enough.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.