Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Beware how you give your heart.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.