A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.