Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.