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.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.