"My Princess of Parallelograms" - "Her proceedings are quite rectangular, or rather we are two parallel lines prolonged to infinity side by side but never to meet."

"If people are to live, why die? And are our carcasses worth raising? I hope, if mine is, I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind …"

"I am a very solitary man, and I prefer the company of books to that of men."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"I am a very restless creature, and I cannot stay long in one place."