Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

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

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.