Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.