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

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

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

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.