I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.