Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Life at worst or best was beautiful—had always been so.

Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

There are crises in all men's lives when they waver between the strict fulfilment of justice and duty and the great possibilities for personal happiness which another line of conduct seems to assure.

Such men (I’m first of them to blame)
From boredom dear friends became.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

Khandra pursued him, always waiting,
It looked for him through all his life
Like own shade or loyal wife.

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

He felt as if the world were not quite so bad with such a good man in it.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

When he talked, she heard the same voice, and discerned the same mind.