"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."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
"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."
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."