What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.