It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

You cannot believe everything you hear

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

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.

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.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.