Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.