Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.