Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.