Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

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.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.