“People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.”
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
