I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.