There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

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.