Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things.
Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats.
The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.
I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn’t mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.
No amount of parental protectiveness could overcome the fact that she was very ready to be dazzled.
It is so important to think for yourself.
A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.
Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity – but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.
Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist.
Imagination shrinks from the consequences.
Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us.
A balance, I think, is needed, ” Dr. Templeton said judiciously,“between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.
One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong.
No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
When you are in love- everything is romantic.
I can always forgive where I understand.
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn’t mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.