I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.