None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time
It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.
We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
You have made him live.
A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.
There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better.
I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.
I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.
Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist
One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
When you are in love- everything is romantic
No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
