I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.