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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

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.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Conventionality is not morality.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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