Amy

“There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.”
― Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield