Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their two universal characteristics. 646
There are but two families in the world as my grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. 649
Years steal fire from the mind as vigour from the limb; and life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. 653
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, and be alone on earth, as I am now. 668
