That is a compliment which gives me no pleasure.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.