Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.