A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

to hope was to expect