The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.