Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?