And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.