I think it is so glorious," said the American. "There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What me… - Anthony Trollope

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or a set of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer teats his sheep and oxen — makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and a soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

I am ready to obey as a child; — but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.