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.

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.

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

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

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

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.

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