When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

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?

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

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

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

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.