I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.