Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
I am old, but I certainly have not that sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.