💬 Quotes

"I must govern myself, may not seek my own gratification, in hoping to make a brute of another."

"You are all kindness, madam, as I ever found you, and I can truly say, that your counsel and example have done me greater good than anything else."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been given them in much greater measure; the pen has been in their hands."

"We all know the propensity to go down hill in the world, when once we begin such an descent."

"I should like to know whether you could charge yourself with having ever been altered, except in pain, since November, 1814."

"My idea of good company... is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

"The river with its dark, cool banks, and the sound of lapping water, and the white stars overhead, is a restful place after a day of toil and trouble."

"How good is man's life, here in the world! and how soon it is over!"

"We are but the playthings of the wind and the weather—especially the weather."

"A man who wants to get the best out of a camping trip should always take a tin opener. If he doesn't, he should take a strong man who has a sense of humor."

"Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs."

"I have been told that in Hell there is no other punishment left than that of being sensible of the loss of good things; I am sure it is so here."

"Poverty is the worst of evils, it subjects us to so many mortifications, it is the cause of so much misery, that it is scarce possible for us to keep our virtue."

"It is a sad thing that a young woman should be left friendless and exposed to the worst of snares when she has no fortune to recommend her."

"I had been trick'd once by that cheat call'd love, but the game was over; I was resolved now to be more mercenary."

"Custom, which is the principal magistrate of man's life, can do anything: and yet I was not so harden'd but that I had some remorse."

"Let none conclude, because their first step has been a false one, that they are therefore lost and undone forever."

"Christ has broken the old world, and is building a new one; but hitherto men know not what it will be like."

"Man is like a vessel: what you pour into it, that it contains."