A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.