“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”

“When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.”

“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”

“She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.”

“If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.”

“Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?”