"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."

"It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best."

"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."

"She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."