"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself."

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."