Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

How success changes the opinion of men!

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.