Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
Maria EdgeworthThere is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Maria EdgeworthSurely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria EdgeworthHabit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Maria Edgeworth