"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."

"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."