It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.