Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.