The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.