I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.