Do anything, save to lie down and die!

A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.