“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”

“We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”

“Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.”

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

“…—We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…”

“I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.”