How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.