Success supposes endeavour.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.