The sooner every party breaks up the better.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

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.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.