I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

I will only add, God bless you.

With a book he was regardless of time.

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.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

One can never have too large a party.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.