I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.