Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

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.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.