He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.