Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

A woman only can understand a woman.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.