Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.