"But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."

"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."