Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.