“In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...”

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”

“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”

“To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.”

“Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”

“it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody”