Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling