"But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"I can always live by my pen."

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

"It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best."

"She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."

"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."