Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

She was stronger alone.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.