I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

It is to live that requires courage, not to die.

Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.