A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.