“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”

“I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.”

“Nothing exceeds the license occasionally taken by the imagination of very rigid people.”

“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”

“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened out round her and made her presently say 'If I could lose myself here!' There were people, people in plenty, but, admirably, no personal question. It was immense, outside, the personal question; but she had blissfully left it outside...".”

“Excellence does not require perfection.”

“My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them— I really like them. They're quite my element.”