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

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

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.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

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.