Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.