"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."

"Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up."