Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Done because we are too many.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.