“Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?”

“For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".”

“You have a most pressing offer from the cable company....It is a time sensitive offer, you know. I thought you would be grateful.”

“One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?”

“Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?""I had hopes, I had hopes.""Hopes? Hopes of what?""I do not know. The things we hope for are always the things we do not know.”

“Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither;—these make the finest company in the world.”