We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

I love you. Most ardently.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

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.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.