You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.