Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.