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

"I can always live by my pen."

"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."

"And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!"