I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.