Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have.Narrator
A man’s mind does become weak with his body, let him struggle against such combined weakness as he may.Narrator
That men should be thoroughly taught is very well;—but, after all, you must trust to the men to teach themselves.Plantagenet Palliser
Everyone knows what attention is. It is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated knowledge.Lady Mary
It is often difficult to decide whether silence and solitude are good or evil. They are surely good for the strong, and evil for the weak.Narrator
We train ourselves to be women by living always under the constraint of men. A man trains himself to be alone.Lady Mary
There is a joy in the actual taste of a sweet thing;—and there is a joy in knowing that the sweet thing is your own, and at your command.Narrator
You will have to make up your mind what you want to be. If you determine to be idle, you should be a woman of fashion.Isabel Boncassen
Marriage is like any other trade; a man begins to fear he can't succeed because another man has failed.Silverbridge
He who uses his intellect is always thinking of something. He who uses his heart and aspirations is always feeling something.Narrator
Character is power in a much higher degree than is either intellect or physical strength.Narrator
Among us, when a man is about to die, in nine cases out of ten his strongest feeling is a desire to be alone.Sir Timothy Beeswax