I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.