Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.