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

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

I can always live by my pen.