If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.