When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

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

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.