What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
越该做的事，就越急不得。

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration¹ to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
女人的思维很有跳跃性：从仰慕到爱慕，从爱慕到结婚都是一眨眼间的事。

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
繁荣的大都市里，没有道德情操这一说。

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
我所知道最有效的幸福秘方就是“赚大钱”。

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal² it as well as she can.
一个女人要是不幸聪明得什么都懂，那就必须同时懂得怎么伪装成什么都不懂。

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs³ of disappointed love.
治愈情伤最好的药就是友谊带来的安慰。

Happiness in marriage is entirely⁴ a matter of chance.
幸福的婚姻都是靠碰运气赚来的。

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
想给我们的喜好找个理由时，脑袋转的是最快的。

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking⁵ them a great deal.
我不希望遇到好相处的人，因为我会很喜欢很喜欢他们，喜欢别人可是件大麻烦。

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion.
订了婚的女人最可爱了。她什么都满足了，什么忧虑都消散了，她可以大大方方去讨好自己未来老公，而无需担心人家以为她在玩暧昧。

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
生活就是一连串的无事忙。