Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.

How different men were to women!

I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.