Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.