"Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings."

"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"

"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."

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

"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."

"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."

"RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve."

"Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope."

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"

"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."