Almost anything is possible with time

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.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.