“None but a woman can teach the science of herself.”

“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done”

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

“She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.”

“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

“[…] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]”