Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.