Great Throughts Treasury

"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself."

"Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass"

"A slighted woman knows no bounds."

"If women were humbler, men would be more honest."

"How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes--and the worst kissing lips in the universe."

"Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals"

"Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her."

"Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!"

"The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable"

"Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world."

"You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so."

"Custom is the law of fools."