A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.
Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.
If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.