An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.