Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

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.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.