The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.