“One man's style must not be the rule of another's.”

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

“Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?"Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.”

“I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

“My style of writing is very different from yours.”