[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.