I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.