There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

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.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.