I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn’t mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.

Still, some might say it was her duty to endure it. But she could not sacrifice self-respect on the altar of convention. That’s rather a good phrase, isn’t it? I must have read it somewhere.

It was an impossibility, but Augusta lived quite comfortably with impossibilities.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn’t mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Miss Rose in this demonstrating the peculiar talent of those who proclaim their absence of self-esteem for getting a lot of attention by pretending they never get any.

I have striven never to betray myself.

How odd that we always exclaim over children growing, as if in the ordinary run of things they shrink.

A balance, I think, is needed, ” Dr. Templeton said judiciously,“between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people’s expectations dreadfully.

I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them.