I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.