If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.