Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

How can you contrive to write so even?

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.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more