There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

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.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.