Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.