“Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.”

“Can one man's madness be another's real life?”

“I have marked in traveling how lonely houses change their expression as you come near, pass, and leave them. Some frown, others smile. The Bible buildings had life of their own and human diseases; the priests cursed or blessed them as men.”

“Beauty always wins friends.”

“It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.”

“Houses seem to remember,' said he. 'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.”

“O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about 60 or 70—has... O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about 60 or 70—has the misfortune to be humpbacked, crooked legged, and rather deformed in his face.—But, in sober sadness, I am delighted with the Dean of Coleraine, whose picture this is, and which I have very lately read. The piety, the zeal, the humanity, goodness and humility of this charming old man have won my heart. Ah! who will not envy him the invaluable treasure!”