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.

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.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

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

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

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

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.