All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.