The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.