All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.