I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.