"A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions."

"Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."

"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."