Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.