I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

Fashion is a capricious deity.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.