Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.