My heart is, and always will be, yours.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.