A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

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?

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.