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

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

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?