A woman only can understand a woman.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.