[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

We are always on the side of those who speak last.