It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth