I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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.