"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
"My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."
"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."