it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.