There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

What strange creatures brothers are!

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”