What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.