The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.