Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.