Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.