I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.