Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.