Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

The busy have no time for tears.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!