“An infallible recipe for making a young man in love with you is to appear to him in a different dress every day.”

Using playful social observation to describe the workings of attraction · Letter or prose advice, commonly attributed

• Beauty
• Love

“Life is too short for a long face.”

Defending cheerfulness against needless solemnity · Conversation or letter, commonly attributed

• Joy
• Time

“To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”

Warning that anger harms the person who gives way to it · Prose writing, commonly attributed

• Joy
• Truth

“I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”

Expressing an uncompromising intensity in personal attachments · Letter, commonly attributed

• Friendship
• Love

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

Celebrating reading as an enduring and accessible pleasure · Letters and prose writings

• Art
• Joy
• Time