That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Easy reading requires hard writing.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.