The business of self-command she settled very easily;—with strong affections it was impossible, with calm ones it could have no merit.

And never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

Their joy on this meeting was very great, as well it might, since they had been contented to know nothing of each other for the last fifteen years.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone.

Be honest and poor, by all means — but I shall not envy you; I do not much think I shall even respect you. I have a much greater respect for those that are honest and rich.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

there is nothing people are so often deceived in as the state of their own affections.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

We all know the difference between the pronouns he or she and thou, the plainest spoken amongst us; we all feel the influence of a something beyond common civility in our personal intercourse with each other—a something more early implanted. We cannot give any body the disagreeable hints that we may have been very full of the hour before. We feel things differently.

Oh! how easy for those, who have no sorrow of their own to talk of exertion!

Men of family would not be very fond of connecting themselves with a girl of such obscurity.

There is hardly any personal defect, which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.