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.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

True love is better than glory.

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