His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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.

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.