CROSSWORD/INTERVIEW: The reading challenge

Guess the author of the lines Across 6.    Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. 7.    'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. 8.    Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate 10.    The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul. Down 1.    Reader, I married him. 2.    Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. 3.    But the Hebrew word, the word timshel — 'Thou mayest' — that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says     the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if 'Thou mayest' — it is also tr ue that 'Thou mayest not'. 4.    The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. 5.    Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. 9.    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons