“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

“...I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.”

“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.”

“When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.”

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”