“…but mortal man was helpless there…”

“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”

“I'd take it manfully, and be respected if I couldn't be loved”

“No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...”

“Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something…”

“[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.”

“...because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.”