The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.