When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.