It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.