I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language. - Anthony Trollope

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.

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.