The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.
Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.