There is nothing so costly as bargains.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

All perfection is melancholy.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.