Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

nothing is more restful than conformity.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.