Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.