If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

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

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

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

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

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