Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Who has words at the right moment?