I'll not listen to reason…Reason always means what someone else has got to say. - Elizabeth Gaskell

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.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

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