I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.