Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.