There is a skeleton in every house.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.