No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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.

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.

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Everything nourishes what is strong already