When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

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

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.

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