Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. - Thomas Hardy

Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems ordained to be her special medium of manifestation throughout all the pages of his memory.

I hate to be what is called a clever girl — there are too many of that sort now!

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways — not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.