“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”

“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”

“Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.”

“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions”

“There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved”