You cannot believe everything you hear
I have striven never to betray myself
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.
Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.
Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion
No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.
Imagination shrinks from the consequences.
One wouldn't wish to tempt fate
It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong
I can always forgive where I understand.
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.
You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.
People argue themselves out of their pleasures
The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things
