I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.