One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.