I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

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

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.