Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.