... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

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.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

She is loveliness itself.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.