I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.