..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

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

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling