"When you criticise everything here you should have a point of view.

Yours doesn't seem to be American--you thought everything over there so disagreeable.
When I criticise I have mine; it's thoroughly American!" "My dear young lady," said Mrs.Touchett, "there are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them.

You may say that doesn't make them very numerous! American?
Never in the world; that's shockingly narrow.

My point of view, thank God, is personal!" Isabel thought this a better answer than she admitted; it was a tolerable description of her own manner of judging, but it would not have sounded well for her to say so.

On the lips of a person less advanced in life and less enlightened by experience than Mrs.Touchett such a declaration would savour of immodesty, even of arrogance.