To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.