A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.