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

“He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.”

“But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?”

“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”

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

“What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!”

“No woman can resist admiration and presents--especially presents, provided they happen to be just the thing she wants. He was sharp enough to know that--most men are. Naturally he wanted something in return--all men do”