I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

There are secrets in all families.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.