But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow <i>seem</i>, and how small they <i>are</i>; how we think we shall die of grief, an… - William Makepeace Thackeray

And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the fields, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us if they did.

Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain as a man,' and they will have perfect reason. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascinations, as any coquette in the world.

As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.