Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.