It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
