She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.