Economy was always "elegant", and money-spending always "vulgar and…

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

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.

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

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

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

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 …