I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real