“Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.”

“A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.”

“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.”

“Don't just count your years, make your years count.”

“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”

“Memoirs: the backstairs of history.”

“The well of true wit is truth itself.”

“Speech is the small change of silence.”

“We are betrayed by what is false within.”

“Chance works for us when we are good captains.”

“Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.”