“Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.”
“The power of thought, the magic of the mind.”
“Romances I never read like those I have seen.”
“All farewells should be sudden, when forever.”
“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
“Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.”
“I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...”
“Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.”
“I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.”
“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”
“The ''good old times'' -- all times when old are good.”
“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.”
“It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.”
“A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.”
“To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.”
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
“The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.”
“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”
“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
“Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.”
“Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?”
“Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.”
“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.”
“All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.”
“No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!”
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”
“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
“So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”