"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

"One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other."

"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."

"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."

"Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown."

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."

"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."

"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

"Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade."