I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.