Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Till this moment I never knew myself.
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.
It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.