- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. »
- The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. »
- Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. »
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. »
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere. »
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong »
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. »
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. »
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. »
- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. »
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