“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

“Far away in the thirties and forties she (the girl you want to be) is waiting her turn. Her body, brain, her soul are in your girlish hands. She cannot help herself. What will you leave for her? … Will you throw away her inheritance?”

“A modest young lady with her head the same size as it was when she was a child.”

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

“Unlike storybook heroes and heroines but like many actual heroes and heroines, she was something of a social outcast.”

“Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..”

“There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were”

“The greatness of this lady lies in her simplicity--it is this that draws her to both old and young alike.”

“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”