Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.