people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

I can always live by my pen.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best