That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.