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

"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent 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."

"I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance."

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

"The only reward for love is the experience of loving."

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian."

"America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant."

"The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness."

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."

"But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again."