A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.