There is perfect love in heaven!

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?

I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold -- but not our brother-men -- not even the best and kindest amongst them.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments