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

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.