Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.