I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.