"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

"Each found her greatest safety in silence."

"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."

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

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

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