If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

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

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.