"I have a great love for suffering, and I believe it is a source of strength."

"The best prophet of the future is the past."

"All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith."

"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk."

"I have been in love with a great many women, and I have found them all equally charming and equally faithless."