Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Time will explain.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

Pray for what you want.Expect your answer in due time.Be strong to wait for the arrival of answer.

...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn’t even imagine.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.