Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

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

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

Let us have the luxury of silence.