A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.