Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning…

It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.

Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it …

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

It was his general plan to repress emotion by not showing the sympathy he felt.