Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.