"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."
"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."
"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."
"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."