There are secrets in all families.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

I was quiet but I was not blind.