but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

I walk: I prefer walking.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.