“I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.”

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”

“Oh," said Catherine, with some eagerness, "it doesn't take long to like a person—when once you begin.”

“Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self--with internal convulsions,sacrifices,executions.”

“I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”

“I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.”

“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression”