"How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."

"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

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

"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."

"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"

"I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance."

"The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it."

"I am my nearest neighbour."

"The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative."

"A stumble may prevent a fall."

"It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go."

"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."