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

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.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.