If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.