Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

With a book he was regardless of time.

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.