Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. 646
All the privilege I claim for my own sex… is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone. 633
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. 659
A family of ten will always be called a fine family, where there are heads, and arms, and legs enough for that number. 648
There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the fialures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. 552
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! 1.86K
