Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

to hope was to expect

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.