"Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?"

"I would rather make my name than inherit it."

"He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton."

"I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."

"Who does not believe his first passion eternal?"

"Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."

"If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied."

"'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have even a life-enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years' lease."

"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness?"

"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries!—what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"

"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."

"We are most of us very lonely in the world. You who have any who love you, cling to them, and thank God."

"Bravery never goes out of fashion."

"It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England."

"George, be a King!"

"Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them—almost all women;—a vast number of clever, hard-headed men."

"Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them."