I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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 frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.